Laggan Parish Church, Laggan Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Laggan Parish Church, Laggan Bridge
- WRENN ID
- veiled-cinder-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 615 943
- Coordinates
- 57.01911, -4.28252
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a grey granite rubble church with tooled granite ashlar dressings, dating to 1785 and partially rebuilt and likely raised in 1842. The church is tall and rectangular. Entrances are located in the outer bays of the long north elevation, and a shallow gabled porch with a round-headed doorway partially obscures the northwest entrance. The south elevation features three long, round-headed windows. The east gable has a slightly advanced central bay with a pair of round-headed windows (added in 1842) and an oculus above. Similarly, the west gable has a shallow advanced centre with a pair of round-headed lancets and matching fenestration in the outer bays. The gable heads above the saw-toothed skews terminate at the west with a bellcote and at the east with a finial. The windows have lattice pane glazing, with some coloured decoration in the east windows, and the roof is slate.
The entrance lobby's floor is laid with local pottery tiles, dating to approximately 1982. Internally, the church was significantly altered in 1842, creating a tall, galleried space. Galleries on both sides are supported by wooden cluster columns that rise to the ceiling, with crude scalloped capitals. A hexagonal pulpit is situated between the east gable windows, above a semi-circular clerk's desk with a narrow backboard and hexagonal sounding board. Stairs provide access to the desk and pulpit on either side.
The church is set within a large burial ground enclosed by a rubble wall topped with shaped, tooled rubble coping. The burial ground is accessed through a pair of square, tooled rubble gate piers with ball finials on attenuated stems and a pair of cast-iron spearhead carriage gates. The building remains in use as a church.
Local climate
Laggan Parish Church, Laggan Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 83 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 66 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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